Deion Sanders explains recent social media beef: 'I got to do better … but I was bored'

Deion Sanders provided clarity on his Twitter tirade amid criticism of the transfer portal exodus at Colorado.

According to Coach Prime, he went to bat for his son Shedeur Sanders. The quarterback criticized former player Xavier Smith, who transferred out. Smith’s openness in an Athletic story is what caught the eyes of the current Colorado regime.

Deion Sanders acknowledged he has to be better, but certainly got caught on social media as any normal human would do, going down a rabbit hole.

“But the other gentleman that came at Shedeur,” Sanders said, via Thee Pregame Show. “Now, I came back. Now that was me. Just like. All right. Now my baby going top five. What what about you? Like that was real.

“So I got to do better on that and not ride with it. But I was bored and I didn’t say anything hurtful. I don’t attack people. But every once in a while I want to play, you know, and then I get petty. I know I could handle that kind of stuff. I can handle that. That’s been happening my whole life. A lot of people can’t handle that. Every now and then you say something about my kids. I’m going to holler at you.”

Deion Sanders initially defended Shedeur’s tweet earlier this month.

“Folks don’t hate u because they really don’t know u,” Sanders tweeted. “They admire u in a Negative way. They realize they can’t be u, think like u, talk like u or walk in your shoes. That Bothers them. Always smile when u see them because that makes them admire u so much more in that negative way.”

One account, named PreTimeKB, responded: “Tell yo son stop act like he the coldest out here then put up a 4-8 season.”

And Sanders wasn’t holding back in his response to that reply, tweeting back: “He will be a top 5 pick. Where yo son going ? Lololol I got time today. Lololol.”

Sanders also quote tweeted the stats of Jaheim Ward, who responded to Kaleb Mathis, a Colorado WR who got in on the beef surrounding Smith. Ward’s stats at Austin Peay were tweeted out by Dalvin Truth, who runs a Colorado football YouTube account.

Deion Sanders explains origin of social media beef

“Lawd Jesus,” Deion Sanders tweeted.

While it was taken like Sanders tweeted that saying that Ward’s stats weren’t good, Sanders explained what he actually meant.

“Y’all know what Lord Jesus means,” Sanders said to Thee Pregame Show. “That means dang you (Dalvin) really went at this cat and they took it as I was shooting at the kid. I don’t play shooting at no kid. I was saying, dang, Dalvin ain’t playing y’all, better leave him alone. That’s really what I was like, Lord Jesus. And I think that was taken wrong. I think that was taken sideways.”

Sanders later said he “apologized to the people that thought I was talking to the kid.”

The original article from The Athletic detailed over 50 players who were no longer with Colorado. Sanders said he took issue with the piece’s intent.

“This is what’s strange to me,” Sanders began. “That great weekend with the (spring) game. with the festivities, great recruiting weekend, million recruits up there that can flat out, play and change the complexity of your program. And right after that, somebody goes and finds a young brother. They talk about another brother and. Is that okay? How’s that okay? You go and find somebody that bad mouths us that ain’t been with us. Why aren’t you talking about the team you’re with or the team you’re getting ready to go to.

“And how can this gentleman not know that you’re being used? Because now you’re going to get used again. Now the fans getting ready to jump on you, and you ain’t built like that mentally and emotionally. You’re not prepared for that onslaught. So you got to be careful with that. And, that’s the sad thing about it. You’re not you’re not built for that kind of stuff, man. Like, don’t don’t do that.”

Coach Prime made it know that he does not mistreat anyone, despite what’s been said.

“No one mistreats nobody, man,” Sanders said. “Like, we don’t do that. I don’t condone that. Y’all been around me. Y’all know how I get down. I don’t mistreat anybody.  I don’t play that, I don’t condone that.”